Developing socioemotional skills for the Philippines’ labor market (English)

While the Philippines has achieved remarkable progress in raising the education level of its labor force, the standard proxy for educational attainment, years of formal schooling, is increasingly inadequate as a measure of workforce skills. About one-third of employer’s report being unable to fill vacancies due a lack of applicants with the requisite skills. Most of these ‘missing skills’ are not forms of academic knowledge or technical acumen, but...

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Acosta,Pablo Ariel;

Igarashi,Takiko;

Hamanaka,Rosechin Olfindo;

Rutkowski,Jan Jerzy;
Document Date
2017/06/29
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
ACS22716 .
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Philippines,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2017/10/09
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Developing socioemotional skills for the Philippines’ labor market
Keywords
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

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Acosta,Pablo Ariel; Igarashi,Takiko; Hamanaka,Rosechin Olfindo; Rutkowski,Jan Jerzy.

Developing socioemotional skills for the Philippines’ labor market (English). Directions in development|human development Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/333521498727263689

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